Mister Coaster

Ha! I had a regional manager who used that phrase constantly - every word uttered after he said that line was a boldface fucking lie. It was an instant bullshit detector for that fool.

On a similar note whenever someone starts a sentence with "To tell you the truth..." or "I'll be honest here..." I'll immediately think their next phrase will be anything BUT the truth.

Ending any word with "-izzle" or "-iznit"
Misuse of "Literally" (comedian David Cross has a chunk on this)

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If you have any poo... fling it NOW!

ShaniFaye

Git r done
Google is your friend
I'd hit it

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I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!

Plan9

...like the fist of an angry god!

Oh, I miss UsTwo.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

LordEden

He's still around, he is posting on the site in those swampbogs we call TPolitics and TParanoia.

God Bless his Soul/Bless his heart.

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roachboy

phrases like "phrases that should be taken out behind the barn and shot" should be taken out behind the barn and shot.

they're like wearing an oklahoma feed & seed hat to sunday brunch in brooklyn.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

Plan9

I love it when you talk dirty.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

Baraka_Guru

Unique

"You're fairly unique, but if you want to be more unique, you need to do something quite different."

No.

Unique: being the only one of its kind.

Please stop modifying unique this way. It's unique or it's not.

How many wheels are on a unicycle?

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

ring

My ex-husband called me a: Boring ordinary Eccentric.

He didn't understand why I laughed at his declaration.

KellyC

Thank you.

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Him: Ok, I have to ask, what do you believe?
Me: Shit happens.

FuglyStick

Irony is elusive

Here, I'll put it in a more digestible form for you, rb--
nuttinbutthetruthasfarasiknow.org

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AZIZ! LIGHT!

roachboy

it is.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

ring

So is your linky?

FuglyStick

A little inside joke between me and Mr. Boy.

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AZIZ! LIGHT!

ring

ahhh...enjoy your chocolate cake, then.

Baraka_Guru

Can we put "shock 'n' awe" to rest now?

I heard it used within the context of an unexpected pregnancy today.

I've moved on to "mock-guffaw" already.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Plan9

You guys are a bunch of fun sponges.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

uncle phil

rolling thunder?

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

ring

okay...''fap fap fap" has got to go...far far away.

This utterance is so juvenile,that
when I see someone use it:
I imagine they have attached a playing card to a spoke of their bicycle with a clothespin.

Lindy

Egg zackly!

Lindy

FuglyStick

Okay, I may be the most guilty person in the world on this one, but until they come up with an alternative onomatopoeia, I'm probably going to continue using it.

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AZIZ! LIGHT!

uncle phil

you're sick, fug...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

FuglyStick

Once a country music artist has promoted the use of a phrase or word, rigor mortis had already set in.

See also, "badonkadonk".

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AZIZ! LIGHT!

Merlocke

New and improved...

Can't be new and improved at the same time...

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lunxpress

"and what not".....what the the hell does that mean? It is not the same as "and so forth", which I understand to be a continuation of the preceding concept. "and what not" is just filler to desperately keep you engaged in what is probably a boring soliloquy by a drip.

Irregardless....hu? "I will go there, irregardless"....combining irrespective and regardless. This annoyance has been adopted by some dictionaries, since it is used incorrectly so regularly (irregularly?).

Am not fond of the misuse of the word "real", either in place of "really". "It was a real good concert" or "I think you look real nice". There is even a magazine called Real Simple. Don't you mean REALLY Simple? Nobody noticed that this was weird before they went to print?

FuglyStick

"unAmerican"

You stupid fucking jizzmonkeys.

Oh, and if we're including words as well, "sheeple". A sure indicator of a fucking moron.

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Xerxys

Yes, yes it can.

You can manufacture something shitty. You can manufacture something a bit less shittier than it's older version. It would be new, and improved. That statement is sound and relevant.

yournamehere

Besides, it's better than the new unimproved shit we're used to!

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If you want to avoid 95% of internet spelling errors:
"If your ridiculous pants are too loose, you're definitely going to lose them. Tell your two loser friends over there that they're going to lose theirs, too."
It won't hurt your fashion sense, either.

Plan9

Dunno, that bullshit word plus the use of a Gadsden flag is often equated to Real Americans.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

uncle phil

you remember the gadsden purchase?

lemme guess, college graduate...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Plan9

"___ loves the cock."

Written on walls all over Iraq and most of the rest stops up and down I-95 outside Fort Bragg.

I think its a military thing.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

FuglyStick

After my time, I reckon.

No one ever accused military personnel of being overly creative or original with their smack talk.

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AZIZ! LIGHT!

Baraka_Guru

"Man up"

For two reasons:

1) The construction itself: to tell someone to do something "up" is by default mildly annoying. Own up, fess up, pony up are just a few more examples.

2) As I mentioned in another thread, to challenge a male to "be a man" or to—ahem—"man up" is in most cases meant to castigate or otherwise manipulate said male or said male's behaviour. It's as though his status as a male is on trial, and that he might lose it or otherwise be penalized if he doesn't shape up. It seems to be based on some ambiguous or otherwise trivial measure of manhood, and that a male must "crank it up" if he finds himself in a position deemed undesirable by those judging him.

Perhaps it would be more understandable if there were a manscale of some kind. Put it on a measure of 1 to 10 or something. That way we could tell a male that he needs to bring his 4 up a few points to a minimum of 6, a socially acceptable baseline. You may call this the Baraka Scale (my manhood being a constant 10). Then—and only then—would it be acceptable to say something like, "Dude, man up! You're being a total Baraka 4. LOL!"

* * * * *

Also, can we please put a moratorium on naming non-software iterations of things using decimal places?

It is no longer edgy for books, conferences, workshops, etc., to have versions such as 2.0, or 3.0. It's not cool anymore. It's not like you're going to patch a book and come out with version 2.13b, for fuck's sake.

We get it. Software and stuff is mainstream and leading edge...information age, rapid change, blah, blah, blah. I don't care. Let's move on.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Plan9

I tell my girlfriend to "man up" sometimes when she's totally being like her crotch organ.

/social progress

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

Baraka_Guru

As an aside, I totally love it when women tell me to suck their balls.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Plan9

Honestly, I'd prefer it if they came up with something more anatomically correct... "gargle my labia," perhaps.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

Baraka_Guru

"Lap my slot."

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Plan9

Yeah, but the problem with shine 'em-ons like that is that in some cases I'd be more than accepting of the invitation.

I get the feeling women very rarely would welcome a chance to orally caress my coinpurse. How one-sided!

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

uncle phil

"OOOH-RAWW!!!"

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Plan9

Hooah.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

Baraka_Guru

Nee-nerrrr, nee-nerrr, nee-nerrr!



Dude, I know. Women should totally loosen up.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot